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VAR to the rescue

Whether you like it or not VAR is here to stay, and the technology has certainly taken a central role in the new football season. Goals have been disallowed, penalties retaken, and offsides have in some cases been brutally dealt with. It is questionable if a player should be deemed offside if ... Read More

Manchester United and Everton may have started the season with different objectives but their respective managers will now be under some considerable pressure after this weekend. For United they travelled to West Ham and for the second consecutive time lost in London. The final score of 2-0 seemed pretty conclusive and the damning verdict came like wildfire from... Read More

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Attentions will turn to European football this week as the Champions League and Europa League start with the group stages.

Current Champions League winners Liverpool kick off their defence with a tricky away game to Italians Napoli. Liverpool are around 6.50 to win the competition again, which if they did would make them just the 2^nd team behind Real Madrid to win back to back Champions Leagues.

The bookmakers have installed... Read More

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The Premier League is by far the most advertised league in the world, and that has been greatly helped by Richard Scudamore's presence for the past 20 years and Sky and other satellite broadcasters in England putting up so much money going into the billions to make clubs who even finish in mid table rich above their wildest dreams.

By the late 90s Sky would offer tag lines to go along with the season, one of those was the big two, in reference to Manchester United and Arsenal who were dominating the domestic game at that time. Then the rules for the Champions League changed and if you... Read More